FAMILY UNDERGROUND Salt Of The Sun CD (Ikuisuus) 14.98An immense new album from the Danish free-drone ensemble Family Underground that invokes an hour long flight through dense fogs of amplifier hum and roar - awesome, consciousness-erasing drift split into three tracks, "Diamond Lust", "Echoes of Green Well", and "Mysterious Invaders", imbued with a weird Lovecraftian sense of cosmic oblivion. Each of these twenty minute tracks whips up a mighty roar of amplifiers that have had their volume knobs cranked all the way up and left to pulse into the darkness while assorted guitars and keyboards lean against walls and equipment, spewing streams of malevolent buzz and ominous drones into the air, everything congealing into a thick wash of electrical buzz, clattery percussion, and doomed chord progressions. Oscillating feedback swoops over gigantic canyons of speaker hiss, and melted riffs rumble out of the haze, becoming distinct for a few moments before becoming swallowed up again in Family Underground's thick aural sludge. Yeah, this album is great, loaded with excellent oozing ambient murk and colossal amp ritual that sounds like it's probably heavily guitar based, and which seeps out of a similiar stoned headspace as outfits like Double Leopards, Mouthus, and Hototogisu, leaning towards the heavier end of the psychedelic free-drone spectrum. And, of course, being an Ikuisuus release, the case for Salt Of The Sun is beautiful to behold, an eight panel digipack with gritty paper textures across the outer panels and a series of crayon root death splashed across the interior, similiar in to the vibrant chaos of Matt Bower's recent artwork.